Iran has started installing new generation centrifuges at its enrichment facility in the Central city of Natanz since last month, Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereidoun Abbasi announced on Wednesday.

“We unveiled the first cascade of the new generation centrifuges in February 2012 and after that our studies completed in that pilot (cascade),” Abbasi told reporters in Tehran today.

“We should install a large number of such systems to reach (the level of) industrial production,” he added.

“Installation of the new centrifuges started in Natanz around a month ago,” Abbasi said, and said the installation process would continue according to the plans in order that “we will be able to complete the laboratory of the new generation centrifuges”.